DrYouth wrote::lol: Do you think Strangelove could pull it off?He is the mad genius sort that just might... (although I think it's a huge stretch even for him)It was Strangelove who pointed out that Skengman has a UK IP address....

Of COURSE he would point to evidence to steer us away from him.

But have you ever noticed how they seemed to bond, discussing their shared critique/appreciation for some obscure philosophical piece that nobody else had heard of?

What regular is going to go after Eustace, or Benkei? Those two have no real "foes" here.

Precisely--he's letting his alter ego do all the things he'd never do himself. Benkei and Eustace represent the benignity that he wishes others perceived in him, and so he hates them for it and uses the sockpuppet Skengman to voice that hostility.

Disappearing for a while is always easier than admitting that you were an ass-hat that escalated the board rhetoric to a nuclear pitch and then tried to play victim of the very problem you created.

Some people just can't apologize, so they vanish for a while and then come wandering back after things cool down.

Oh, there's no doubt he'll be back.

The dude stormed off the board in a huff last year, vowing never to return, only to break that vow less than 24 hours later to report on the police raid that rendered him homeless, bookless, drugless, and stripped of all possessions (save, apparently, for his laptop and a wireless connection ).

He'll be back soon unless he's dead. And he might put in an appearance even then if they have wi-fi in Purgatory.

drtrech wrote:The dude stormed off the board in a huff last year, vowing never to return, only to break that vow less than 24 hours later to report on the police raid that rendered him homeless, bookless, drugless, and stripped of all possessions (save, apparently, for his laptop and a wireless connection ).

"True heroism is you, alone, in a designated workspace. True heroism is minutes, hours, days, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care, with no one there to see or cheer." The Pale King, by D. F. Wallace.

drtrech wrote:The dude stormed off the board in a huff last year, vowing never to return, only to break that vow less than 24 hours later to report on the police raid that rendered him homeless, bookless, drugless, and stripped of all possessions (save, apparently, for his laptop and a wireless connection ).

Or . . . he may be in a bunker prepping for the upcoming Catholic vs. America revolution.You know, he has to circle all the Planned Parenthood locations on his maps, mix up the explosives, paint his gear black . . .

What regular is going to go after Eustace, or Benkei? Those two have no real "foes" here.

Precisely--he's letting his alter ego do all the things he'd never do himself. Benkei and Eustace represent the benignity that he wishes others perceived in him, and so he hates them for it and uses the sockpuppet Skengman to voice that hostility.

Or some such psychobabble nonsense . . .

Are you implying Multiple Personality Disorder... That would be an awesome psychological whodunnit...But why would DSL's "alter" be a marxist facist POC from the UK with an urban patois lingo...I can't square that from my analysts couch over here... that is beyond a stretch.

What regular is going to go after Eustace, or Benkei? Those two have no real "foes" here.

Precisely--he's letting his alter ego do all the things he'd never do himself. Benkei and Eustace represent the benignity that he wishes others perceived in him, and so he hates them for it and uses the sockpuppet Skengman to voice that hostility.

Or some such psychobabble nonsense . . .

Are you implying Multiple Personality Disorder... That would be an awesome psychological whodunnit...But why would DSL's "alter" be a marxist facist POC from the UK with an urban patois lingo...I can't square that from my analysts couch over here... that is beyond a stretch.

I suspect it is this guy:

Griz

“We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." -Edward R. Murrow